ITEMS FROM THE ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 25

ITEMS FROM THE ZB's

FOR the last two years the ZB stations and 2ZA have been presenting the Hit Parade programme on Tuesdays at 8.0 p.m. To mark its second anniversary, a contest has been arranged, with eight prizes-the first a radio set valued at £130, second a set valued at £45, third a set valued at £19/19/-, and five consolation prizes of a guinea each. Of 16 songs heard from time to time in this session during the last two years, listeners will be asked to choose eight, placing them in order of favouritism, and the competitors who place the titles in tha majority order of listeners’ preference will be the prize-winners. Entries close on Wednesday, August 18, and the results will be announced on Tuesday, August 31. * * * A NEW programme, replacing Romiance of Famous Jewels, at 3ZB, will be When Did This Happen? in which the compére will present in each episode three or four dramatized scenes based on important dates in history. On océcasions a clue may be supplied in the form of music and at the end of each episode the answers will be given. When Did This Happen? starts on Friday, August 6, at 6.30 p.m, * * * [EDGAR WALLACE’S thriller’ The Sinister Man has replaced The Missing Million at 7.45 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3ZB. And according to what the Christchurch station tells us, Canterbury listeners take their serials somewhat seriously, for several of them, having missed one or two episodes; have telephoned 3ZB for a synopsis of them. In fact one woman listener asked the other evening if the previous night’s chapter could be played to her over the ‘telephone.